My first visit in maybe two years. The weather at the start was sunny, 70 degrees ("feels like" 70), and breezy. The park has had more trees removed since my last visit, with no replanting. Several large trees (including a large Longleaf Pine) were downed from Hurricane Milton, and crews were removing the debris. The vacant lot just south of the very southwestern part of the park is now a house with no trees remaining; they removed all the large Cherry Trees and the sole Florida Rosemary (Ceratiola ericoides) bush that I have ever seen in Hernando County (regrettably, I never took a photograph of it). The lake level was not at all high, strangely. I walked the park counter-clockwise. I found a dead adult Sandhill Crane along the lakefront; it was not banded. I left at 1332.
My first visit in maybe two years. The weather at the start was sunny, 70 degrees ("feels like" 70), and breezy. The park has had more trees removed since my last visit, with no replanting. Several large trees (including a large Longleaf Pine) were downed from Hurricane Milton, and crews were removing the debris. The vacant lot just south of the very southwestern part of the park is now a house with no trees remaining; they removed all the large Cherry Trees and the sole Florida Rosemary (Ceratiola ericoides) bush that I have ever seen in Hernando County (regrettably, I never took a photograph of it). The lake level was not at all high, strangely. I walked the park counter-clockwise. I found a dead adult Sandhill Crane along the lakefront; it was not banded. I left at 1332.